{"id":704,"date":"2013-01-04T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/04\/lesson-learned-while-watching-ducks"},"modified":"2013-01-04T12:57:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T12:57:00","slug":"lesson-learned-while-watching-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=704","title":{"rendered":"Lesson learned while watching Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I learned a valuable lesson Thursday night while watching the Oregon Ducks play the Kansas State Wildcats in the Fiesta Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re going to watch a Ducks football game, be sure to watch every single play. You don\u2019t, you\u2019ll miss something big.<\/p>\n<p>For the second time in as many seasons, during a BCS bowl game, I had the misfortune of missing a gigantic play from the Ducks.<\/p>\n<p>I turned the game on exactly 12 seconds late. The picture on came and image on the screen was of the Ducks cheering, high-fiving and celebrating De\u2019Anthony Thomas\u2019 94-yard touchdown run on the game\u2019s opening kickoff. The camera flashed to the K State fans, many of whom were holding their heads in disbelief at what they had just seen.<\/p>\n<p>OK, I saw the replay, but it isn\u2019t the same.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time the Ducks \u2013 and Thomas in particular \u2013 have done this to me. Flash back to last year\u2019s Rose Bowl game: Ducks vs. Wisconsin. I was watching every snap. Then I made a critical mistake. I got up, walked into the kitchen to get something to drink. What do hear coming from the TV set? Cheering and hollering and TV announcers exclaiming about what they had just seen \u2013 which was Thomas busting a run from scrimmage for a 91-yard touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>Lesson learned a year ago, right? Oh, no.<\/p>\n<p>I had to re-learn it Thursday night. Shame on me.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned a valuable lesson Thursday night while watching the Oregon Ducks play the Kansas State Wildcats in the Fiesta Bowl. If you\u2019re going to watch a Ducks football game, be sure to watch every single play. You don\u2019t, you\u2019ll miss something big. For the second time in as many seasons, during a BCS bowl &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=704\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lesson learned while watching Ducks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}